Primate Conservation in the
21st Century
A Personal Perspective on Primatology in Brazil
Primate Conservation from a Global Perspective
How Many Primates?
Threats to Primates
Actions Needed:
The IUCN/SSC Primate Specialist Group
Assessing Conservation Status – The Red List Process
Priority Megadiversity Countries and Hotspots for Primates
Building Capacity and Increasing Awareness
Primate Ecotourism
Finding the Resources Needed
Climate Change, Rain Forests, and Prmates
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Blumenau, SC – SBPr Congress
December 11, 2009
Primate Conservation
in the 21st Century
Entering the Second Decade
A Global Perspective
What are the Challenges?
Primate Conservation in the
21st Century
Primate
Diversity
How many primates
actually exist and
where are they found?
Primate Conservation in the
21st Century
Understanding Primate Diversity
Essential for
Effective Primate Conservation
Primate Conservation in the
21st Century
The Disney Workshop
on
Primate Taxonomy
Orlando, F/lorida
February, 2000
Primate Diversity
Phylogenetic
Species Concept
Primate Diversity
17 families
72 genera
421 species
Primate Diversity
669 taxa
(spp. & sspp.)
Primate Diversity
The Lowest Named Taxon
as the Unit of
Conservation Action
Primate Diversity
669 taxa
(spp. & sspp.)
Primate Diversity
486 monkeys
41 apes
162
prosimians
New World Monkeys
Old
World
Monkeys
Gibbons /
Lesser Apes
Great Apes
Lorises &
Galagos
Lemurs
Tarsiers
New Species
Still
Being Discovered !
We are living in
an exciting
new era of
Species Discovery !
New Primate Species Described
Since 1990
86
(20.4% of all
known species)
Highland Mangabey
Rungwecebus kipunji
Lemurs of Madagascar - Field Guide
1994:
50
2006:
71
2009:
101+
Primate Conservation in the 21st Century
THREATS
TO
PRIMATES
Priorities, New Opportunities,
and New Directions
Ebola
Global Climate Change
Loss is Irreversible !!
An Impending
Extinction
Crisis
Prospect of largest extinction episodes in
our planet’s history
Erosion of critical ecosystem services essential
to our own survival …..